Kanji1 / 8
国 kanji
country
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
コク
Kun readings
くに
Variant forms
囶圀國Words with 国
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —靖国pacifying the nation
- —土国Turkey
- —国試state examination (esp. for qualifying as a doctor, dentist, nurse, etc.)
- —国都(national) capital city
- —国訳translation from a foreign language into Japanese
- —西国western part of Japan (esp. Kyushu, but ranging as far east as Kinki); western nations (esp. India or Europe); thirty-three temples in the Kinki area containing statues of Kannon (Avalokitesvara); pilgrimage to the thirty-three temples sacred to Kannon
- —国章national emblem; (national) coat of arms
- —国保national health insurance
- —国造regional administrator (pre-Taika hereditary title)
- —六国the Six Kingdoms (of China's Warring States period: Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Wei and Zhao); the six tree-derived incense varieties used in kōdō ceremonies
- —国蝶national butterfly
- —倭国Japan
- —国訓Japanese reading of a kanji (esp. in ref. to readings that do not correspond to the orig. Chinese meaning of the kanji)
- —国警national rural police (1947-1954)
- —国衙provincial governor's office; provincial governorate (beginning in the late Heian period)
- —任国one's country of assignment (e.g. for an ambassador)
- —現国modern Japanese (esp. as a school subject)
- —国恥national humiliation; national disgrace
- —汗国khanate
- —国選selection by the state (esp. of a defense lawyer); appointment; assignment